For those of you who want to vacation while enjoying the giant ice sculptures are amazing, just come to Harbin. Harbin is a sub-provincial city located on the south bank of the Songhua river. The place known as the ‘City of Ice’ because of the long winter and this winter is the capital of Heilongjiang province, China.

International Snow and Ice Festival Harbin (Harbin International Snow and Ice Festival) is an annual event in the city of Harbin, held since 1995. The festival is officially on January 5, and lasts for a month. But sometimes the festival was opened early in November, and the festival has been extended for ice and snow has not melted. The festival is followed by ice and snow sculptors from various countries.

The exhibition is held in 3 main locations, the Sun Island Park (Taiyang Dao Gongyuan) for ice and snow sculptures, Snow and Ice World (Bingxue Gong) to replicas of buildings from blocks of ice and snow, and Zhaolin Park for ice lanterns.
During the festival you can see the beauty of more than 2000 snow and ice sculptures are fascinating look complete with a touch of colorful lights, music and fireworks. During the festival you will also be presented with other interesting events, such as swimming in the Songhua River, ice hockey games, football games in the field of ice, as well tournament invitation Yabuli Alpine skiing, ice carving competitions, film festivals, exhibitions and wedding ceremonies on ice.

Beautiful ice sculpture not only can you enjoy the exhibition arena. Even along the road, in front of every major building, and the field was lined colorful ice sculpture. The size of the snow sculptures were diverse, there is great like the Arc de Triomphe in Paris and the poles are lined up. And some are smaller and shaped like flowers and sculptures with a layer of chocolate cake. Perhaps, after the festival period, ice sculptures will be destroyed with dynamite.

Sculptures are displayed at the Sun Island Park (Taiyang Dao Gongyuan) are not just carvings made of clear ice blocks alone. There are also sculptures made of several tons of snow piles shaped like castles, dragons, traditional house, and head of the royal army. Replication of other magnificent buildings ever built from blocks of ice and snow of them are Great Wall of China, Tian’anmen, pagodas, and Niagara Falls. No wonder if the festival held in the city that has a nickname ‘Pearl on the swan neck’ because Heilongjiang shape that resembles a goose, it could break the record and entered the Guinness Book with the criteria of ice lantern exhibition open space the biggest, longest, and most wide-ranging.

While visiting this place during the day, you can take pictures and enjoy the sweet delicacy that is served complete with boiled his tea to keep warm in the middle of the cold temperature of the ‘City of Ice’ is.

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New Zealand is an island nation located in the southwest Pacific Ocean. State which is also known as the kiwi bird country has its own beauty and uniqueness in the hearts of the tourists, because of the many fascinating sights to visit.

Wellington City is the capital of New Zealand. The town is known to have strong winds blowing it provides plenty of places to relax. The city is also one of the safest cities in New Zealand. During a visit to Wellington, there are some interesting places you can visit, among others:

Te Papa Museum

The museum has a fairly complete collection, ranging from the history of New Zealand, Maori culture, a collection of animal and plant fossils, earthquake simulation, and other interactive media. One of which attract visitors are the giant squid.

Botanic Garden

In these nature-based tourist attractions you can try to climb the cable car ticket prices around $ 4. The summer is a good fit for our visit, because in this park so many beautiful flowers that are blooming.

Cuba Street and Manners Mall

This region is the center of pedestrian traffic in the city of Wellington. Here you can visit the Lambton Quay shopping center. In this area you can find street attractions.

Another city you can visit the city of Tauranga. This city can be designated for two and a half hours drive from Auckland. During the journey to the city, you can see the vast expanse of green hilly field with dozens of cattle and hundreds of sheep and goats is freely released, as well as wooden houses surrounded by lush trees. Natural scenery with the cool air makes the area of farms to be one interesting sights in New Zealand. While enjoying the scenery, you also can warm themselves with coffee and eating delicious dishes at the cafe located in the middle of the ranch.

Go to the edge of a wooded hill, you can find the plantation kiwi fruit, grapes, and apples. Most of the harvest the grapes were processed into wine which you can enjoy to warm the body. Quality wines in this country no doubt because it has been included in the list of world’s best wines.

In a country that holds a myriad of enchanting natural beauty and uniqueness of ethnic multicultural, there are some areas that you must visit, one of which is the city of Christchurch. In this city there are many parks are laid out very neatly. You also can visit the Avon river, a beautiful winding river in its banks adorned with a variety of fine grass and poplar trees and white banyan. Do not forget also to the town of Kaikoura where you can see whales at close range.

When shopping tour in the cities of New Zealand, you can buy handicrafts indigenous Maori who was promoted as an icon tourism insdutri this country.

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